5 6 D O C . 5 7 C O M M E N T O N A N D E R S O N 57. “Comment on the Note by W. Anderson ‘A New Explanation for the Continuous Corona Spectrum’”[1] [Einstein 1923m] Published 9 June 1923 In: Astronomische Nachrichten 219 (1923): cols. 19–20. The view expressed in the mentioned note, that the deflection of light in the vi- cinity of the Sun could be caused by an electron gas, seems untenable to me. En- tirely disregarding the question of whether an equilibrium of the kind envisioned by the author were possible, and whether such a gas of the envisioned density were transparent enough, this hypothesis cannot explain the light deflection because it delivers a deflection effect of the opposite sign.[2] A. Einstein.